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acceptance, adoption, acceptation, espousal | the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | |
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borrowing, adoption | the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | |
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adoption | [in law] a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) |